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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
Herald Business
PACIFIC AG ACQUIRES CALAGRI
Company bolsters
status as largest
crop residue
supplier
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VOLUME 110 ● NUMBER 24
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Shannon Paxton | Offi ce coordinator • spaxton@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4530
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By GEORGE PLAVEN
Staff Writer
Two of the Northwest’s
largest biomass and crop
residue companies are join-
ing forces.
Pacifi c Ag, of Hermis-
ton, announced Thursday it
has acquired Calagri after
nearly two decades working
side by side in the industry.
Terms of the deal were not
disclosed, but Pacifi c Ag
CEO Bill Levy said it will
help provide better service
for growers and a more reli-
able stream of products for
different markets.
“I think it says great
things about the future of
Pacifi c Ag and our mar-
kets,” Levy said. “There’s
a lot of great opportunities
out there, and we felt we
could meet those opportu-
nities better together than
we could separately.”
Pacifi c Ag is the nation’s
largest harvester of crop resi-
due and forage — such as corn
stover and wheat straw — used
to make things like animal feed
or tree-free paper products.
Composted wheat straw is also
what’s predominately used to
grow commercial mushrooms
for grocery stores.
But perhaps one of the
biggest future markets,
Levy said, is plant material
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Pacifi c Ag, of Hermiston, announced Thursday it has acquired Calagri, a hay and forage
company based in Washington.
as a feedstock for biofuel
and biochemicals.
“We believe that’s going
to be a signifi cant part of our
future,” Levy said.
Based in Ellensburg,
Washington, Calagri has col-
laborated and even shared
equipment in the past with
Pacifi c Ag, Levy said. Now,
they’ll be able to continue
that work seamlessly under a
single operation.
Calagri’s co-owner, Kerry
Calaway, is joining Pacifi c
Ag’s leadership team and
said it is an exciting time to
be joining forces.
“New markets for forage
and crop residue are grow-
ing across the region and the
country, and farmers are in-
creasingly looking for ways
to sustainably generate ad-
ditional income per acre,”
Calaway said in a statement.
“Together, we will create
more opportunities for farm-
ers while providing better
service to our customers.”
Levy said Pacifi c Ag
will retain Calagri’s em-
ployees, and as a result of
the transaction the compa-
ny will now harvest more
than 300,000 tons of forage
every year across Oregon,
Washington and Idaho.
“This is a signifi cant ad-
dition for us,” Levy said.
“It’s exciting, truly, to be
working with them and to
be one company.”
Growers interested in
learning more about gener-
ating income off crop resi-
due can contact Pacifi c Ag
at 1-844-RESIDUE.
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